Story Time w/ Aunt Phil: Alaska’s Constitution

This week in 1955, a group of dedicated Alaskans convened on the campus at the University of Alaska Fairbanks to begin drafting a constitution for what they hoped would become the new State of Alaska.
When the 31 delegates from the major cities of Juneau, Fairbanks and Anchorage and 24 from other regions of the territory gathered at the university on Nov. 8, it included 49 men and six women who were business people, lawyers, miners, fishermen, homemakers and one homesteader. The only Alaska Nati